kidkboom, you misunderstand. Me at least. I do not mock these people. After all, if they are there they had some reason to be there. Even if that reason was simply to have some fun - they've a right to do so. But what they miss is the fact that if their demands are satisfied their lives would really turn to worse. USA's a very rich country. Yes, most of its wealth is concentrated in the hands of those from that 1 percent, but still even the unemployed get some allowance (and its sheer size would make a peasant in some third-world country really really happy), your police is not corrupt, well not as much as the police in my country. You have some social programs which help the poor. You have probably the lowest interest rate for loans in the world, et cetera, et cetera. Yes, America is robbing the rest of the world for profits, that's a sad fact, but these people - what will happen to them if all of the above disappears? Whould they find absolute chaos better?
I simply cannot imagine how these protests can help anybody with anything. It's a choice between things being bad as they are now and things being far worse. This mob, forgive me saying so, is uncapable of running the country. They're even uncapable of cleaning their own shit from the park.